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After a System upgrade from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin to Trusty Tahr I wasn’t able to connect to the server using SMB. The server is part of a active directory. Reading the documentation through, I figured out that wbinfo worked flawless, but the user was not found when using id.

$ wbinfo -u
my.user
guest
...
$ id my.user
id: my.user: no such user

/etc/nsswitch.conf need be configured right (winbind must be configured), but it was in my case:

passwd: compat winbind
group: compat winbind
shadow: compat
...

Using strace, I figured out that libnss_winbind.so.2 wasn’t found by id. In the end, the solution was easy as that:

The ServiceModelService belongs to the WCF part of the .NET Framework. In the Server Manager under Features I found the “WCF-Activation” option. So I activated this option (with “Non-HTTP Activation”). Afterwards, the file in Question existed and the installation of the Language Pack succeeded!